Re: «catastrophe»: cannot compile auctex from main any more: error: Symbol’s value as variable is void: AUCTeX-version

[Ikumi Keita]

Hi Uwe,

>>>>> Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> writes:
>> You can send patches without a working repository; would produce a
>> little more work at the maintainer side, but it is doable.  

> Well, I really feel uncomfortable using code which could not be tested
> against the latest repository commit, by running make, 

Well, I don't understand what you are afraid of because ELPA-devel is
the same as the latest git repository. You don't have to run make on it.

> yet providing such code seems more problematic 

It is true that you have to byte-compile the new code manually in order
to test it and you cannot use "make" for byte compile after you switch
to using ELPA-devel. But is isn't "problematic" in my view.

>> Sorry, no idea.  But I'd say the change wasn't so drastic as you think,
>> so I really can't tell why you can't build from a fresh clone.

> Because it builds some variable from some git meta data which do not
> exist in a mercurial clone.

I don't understand this, either. The commit by Stefan did not change
anything with respect to the data extraction from .git directory.

Regards,
Ikumi Keita
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